Morphology And Syntax

10 Questions | By Tolk | Updated: Mar 21, 2022 | Attempts: 1707

Questions

Settings

Create your own Quiz

Questions and Answers

1.

Categories of verbal morphologyWhich of the following is NOT a category of verbal morphology:
- A.
  
  Tense
- B.
  
  Case
- C.
  
  Aspect
- D.
  
  Person
2.

Index of fusionThe index of fusion describes languages along a scale from:
- A.
  
  Synthetic to fusional
- B.
  
  Agglutinating to fusional
- C.
  
  Isolating to fusional
- D.
  
  Option 4
3.

Index of synthesisThe index of synthesis describes languages on a scale from
- A.
  
  Fusional to synthetic
- B.
  
  Isolating to synthetic
- C.
  
  Agglutinating to synthetic
- D.
  
  Option 4
4.

Compare the 2 sentences below: Jeg forstår ikke, hvorfor han ikke vil snakke med mig. I don’t understand why he won’t speak to me Does the underlined clause fulfill the same syntactical role in both of the 2 languages?
- A.
  
  Yes –they are both relative clauses.
- B.
  
  No, the comma marks the beginning of a non-restrictive relative clause in the Danish example, whereas the English one, lacking the comma, is a restrictive one.
- C.
  
  Yes, they are both complement clauses fulfilling the role of direct object.
- D.
  
  No, they are both complement clauses, but the Danish one fulfills the role of direct object, whereas the English one fulfills the role of adverbial
5.

Consider the following examples from Greenlandic:Nuummukarpoq - 'She went to Nuuk'Arnaavunga - 'I am a woman'Kaffisivit? - 'Did you buy coffe?'On the basis of these examples, it seems safe to assume that Greenlandic is:
- A.
  
  Polysynthetic
- B.
  
  Agglutinative
- C.
  
  Fusional
- D.
  
  Option 4
6.

Consider the following example of a Japanese relative clause:Japanese:watasi ga hon o ataeta kodomo1sgPRO S book ACC give.PRV child-----------REL. CLAUSE------------------ HEAD’the child I gave a book to’ The position of the relative clause in respect to the head gives us reason to believe
- A.
  
  That adjectives would be placed in front of the noun in an NP
- B.
  
  That adjectives would be placed after the noun in an NP
7.

Switch reference is a grammatical phenomenon found in some languages. It is used to
- A.
  
  Link several clauses together by marking each clause for same or different subject
- B.
  
  Switch subjects around within the clause
- C.
  
  Link several clauses together by switching the subject for each clause
- D.
  
  Link sentences together by repeating the final clause of the first sentence as the first clause of the next one.
8.

Consider the following example in French: Je n’-aime-Ø pas l’-école!1sgPRO NEG-like-1sgS not DEF-school’I don’t like school’ On the basis of this example, what is the basic word order in French?
- A.
  
  OVS
- B.
  
  SVO
- C.
  
  SOV
- D.
  
  VSO
9.

Consider the following example og Lithuanian morphology from M. Arkadiev, Peter. 2012Stems in Lithuanian verbal inflection (with remarks on derivation) in: Word Structure. Apr2012, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p7-27. 21p.On the basis of these data, what morphological type would you consider Lithuanian to come closest to?
- A.
  
  Isolating
- B.
  
  Fusional
- C.
  
  Agglutinative
- D.
  
  Option 4